Fabric-holding frame.



PATENTED JULY 24, 1906;

H. HOGHRBUTENER.

FABRIC HOLDING FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED DEGA. 1905.

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PATENTED JULY 24.

H. HOCHREUTENER. FABRIG HOLDING FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED DEOA, 1905.

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UNITED STATES HENRY HOCHREUTENER, OF WEST HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

FABRIC-HOLDING FRAME- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application filed December 4, 1905. Serial No. 290,1'7.

Fabric-Holding Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

section The purpose of the invention is to provide a fabric-holdingframe especially adapted for use in connection with what is known asSwiss embroidering-machines and to so construct the frame that anydesired number of retaining devices may be employed, which devices aresimple, durable, light, and strong, and so that by their means anydesired number of pieces of fabric may be quickly and convenientlystretched and firmly secured in their stretched position without dangerof injury to the goods. Another purpose of the invention is to provide afabric-holding frame by means of which the corner portions of thehandkerchief or like article can be stretched not only longitudinally ofthe frame, but also transversely as well, enabling a designa letter orthe liketo be worked a uniform distance from the hem or border, nomatter how narrow or how wide the hem or border may be.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveralparts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding p arts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of the improved fabric-holdingframe. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the said frame as shown in Fig. 1.Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal taken practically on the line 3 3 ofFig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a corner portion of the frame,illustrating the application thereto of an auxiliary clamp, said clampbeing shown used in connection with a handkerchief having a narrowborder or hem. Fig. 5 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 4, showingthe auxiliary clamping used in connection with a handkerchief having awide hem or border; and Fig. 6 is a side elevation of one of thelocking-arms.

The body portion of the frame consists of 'two side bars 10 and 11 ofany desired length and a connecting-bar 12, located at one end deviceonly of the said side bars. One of the side bars-the side bar 1 1-isprovided with a rab bet 13 in its outer edge, and at the vertical wallof the said rabbet a metal strip 14 is secured by means of screws orpins 15 or their equivalents. The side bars 10 and 11 are connected byretaining devices A, located, preferably, at regular intervals apart,although I do not confine myself to any particular number or arrangementof the said retaining devices.

Each retaining device is of the same construction, and a retainingdevice consists of a body-bar 16 of sufficient length to extend wellover both of the side pieces 10 and 11 at their opposing edges, andlongitudinal flanges 17 and 17 which extend up from the longitudinaledges of the body-bar, together with a central partition 18, parallelwith the said flanges. The flanges 17 and 17 a do not extend quite tothe ends of the body-bar, but are sufficiently long to reach from theinner edge of one side bar to the corresponding edge of the other, andpreferably the partition 18 is slightly longer than the flanges 17 and17 In this manner the body-b ar of the retaining device is divided intotwo longitudinal compartments 19 and 19. Furthermore, in theconstruction of the body-bar slots 20 are made in the bottom portions ofthe compartments 19 and 19*, as is shown in Fig. 3 so that when materialis forced down into the said compartments it will be pressed extent, andthus facilitate the binding action between the material and thebody-bar. Therefore these openings 20 are preferably more or lesselongated.

One end portion of a body-bar is secured, by means of a screw 21 or itsequivalent, to the side piece 10, while the opposite end is attached tothe side piece 11 by a screw 22 or the like, and at that end of thebody-bar which is located on the side piece 10 opposing ears 23 areformed, extending upwardly from the said bar, and a pin 24. is passedthrough the two cars, which pins serve to ivot the outer ends of the twolocking-arms and B, each locking-arm being made to extend the length ofone of the compartments 19 and 19 of the bod -bar, and the opposite orfree ends of the sai lockin -arms extend out beyond the end of the boy-bar attached to the side i pieces 11 and overthe rabbet 13 in saidside ar, as 1s shown 1n Figs. 1 and 2. These into the said openings 20to a greater or lesser frame, the locking-arms B locking-arms are heldspaced apart at their pivot ends, preferably by means of an interposedspring-Washer 25, as is best shown in Fig. 1, and the said locking-armsare more or less longitudinally curved, their under edges being convexedand their upper edges concaved, so that when the free ends of the saidlocking-arms are pressed down in the compartments of the body-bar 16they will have the firmest possible bearing upon the bottom of the saidcompartments, as the bars are rendered more or less straight when theyare forced down at their free ends, and after said bars have been forceddown as far as possible in the said compartments they are locked attheir free ends in any approved manner-for example, by means of inks 27,which are slipped over the free ends of the said lockingarms, and overpins 28, which extend out- Ward from the plate 14, attached to the outerside edge of the side bar 11, as is particularly shown in Fig. 2.Furthermore, in order that the locking-arms When carried to lockingposition shall not cut or in any manner injure the fabric to be clampedin a compartment each locking-arm is provided between its ends with asleeve 26, of rubber or other yielding material, the sleeves being of alength practically corresponding to the length of a com artment 19 or 19in the body-bar.

W fien the'fabric 19 is to be stretched in the and B of the pairselected to lock, the fabric in place are lifted up at their free ends,and the fabric is then passed beneath the raised arms, and the edge ofthe fabric near which the embroidery is to be worked is brought as nearas may be desired to the inner edge of the side bar '10 of the frame.The surplus material at each side of the arms in action is then rolledupon itself, as is shown at 30 in Figs. 1 and 2, and

then the overhanging inner portion of the material is carried inwardbeneath the free end portions of the locking-arms B and B, and thematerial is stretched as much as possible with the hands, and then thelockingarms upon being forced down and locked in their fixed positionwill have stretched the material between them as tight as is everrequired.

This device is exceedingly simple, it is well adapted for the purposeintended, and is convenient in operation. It is evident that any one ormore pairs of locking-arms may be brought into action, and that-when alocking-arm is pressed downward and locked the fabric is crowded into acompartment 19 or 19 in such manner that it cannot be moved outtherefrom until the locking-arms are released, as is very evident byreference to Fig. 3. It may be here remarked that as a locking-arm isnot required in the outer compartment of the outermost retaining deviceor that located near the transverse connectingbar 12 such lockin -armhas been omitted in I Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings. In Figs. 4 and 5,however, such bar is shown, although it is rarely used.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have shown the addition of a clip C of any approvedconstruction, located on the side bar 10 about an equal distance betweenopposing retaining devices A. This clip 0, as illustrated, consists of abase-plate 32. secured to the side bar 10, an arched spring upperlip 33,having play on the base-plate, a post 34, which is attached to thebase-plate and extends up through an opening in the said lip, a spring33 (shown by dotted lines.) coiled around the post between thebase-plate and the lip, and a handle 35, which is pivoted on the upperend of the post 34, the said handle at its pivot end being the handle isforced downward and outward, as shown in Figs. 4

and 5, the material introduced between the baselate and the lip will befirmly engaged and field, and when the handle is carried in an o positedirection the lip rises from the base-p ate and thematerial can be freedtherefrom. This clip C is employed when. the embroidery is to be workedadjacent to the corner of a handkerchief 39, for exam le, and when thehem 37 on such handkerchief is narrow the mouth of the clip receives thecorner of the handkerchief in single thickness but when the handkerchiefis provided with a wide hem 38, as shownin Fig. 5, the corner of thehandkerchief at the hem is folded over upon itself, as shown also inFig. 5, so as to bring the mouth of the clip to about the same posltionrelative to the inside edge of the hem or border as it sustained to theinside edge of the narrow border of the handkerchief shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In fabric-holding frames, a frame and retainingdevices secured to the frame comprising parallel channel-bars, thechannels being in their upper faces and a longitudinal partition in thechannel of each bar, dividmg each channel-bar into two parallelcompartments which are open at their ends, a curved locking-bar havingits under surface convexed operatin in each compartment of eachchannel-bar t e length of the compartments, which locking-bars are freeat one end and are pivotally mounted at their opposite ends, springs atthe pivoted ends of the locking-bars of each channel-bar yieldinglysupporting them, fastening devices for the free ends of thelocking-bars, and an elastic sleeve surrounding each locking-bar for themajor portion of its length between its ends.'

2. In fabric-holding frames, a frame and retaining devices secured tothe frame comprising spaced and parallel channel-bars, the channelsbeing in their upper faces, and a longitudinal partition in the channelof each provided with a cam-surface 36, so that when bar, dividing eachchannel-bar into two parallel compartments which are open at their ends,a curved locking-bar having its under surface convexed, operating ineach compartment of each channel-bar the length of the compartments,which locking-bars are free at one end and are pivotally mounted attheir 0 osite ends, springs at the pivoted ends of tfie ocking-bars ofeach channel-bar yieldingly supporting them, fastening devices for thefree ends of the locking-bars, an elastic sleeve surrounding eachlocking-bar for the major portion of its length between its ends, and

cli s secured to the frame between the channe -bars Where thelocking-bars are pivoted 15 which clips grip and retain the cornerportions of a handkerchief While its side ortions are held under tensionby the lockingbars.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 20 name to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY HOOHREUTENER.

Witnesses:

ULRICH EGGENBERGER, ANNA NEFF.

